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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VILLIAM P. KOOKOGEY, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO THE KOOKOGEY ELEC- TRIC COMPANY, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y.

GALVANIC BATTERY.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 407,781, dated July 30, 1889.

7 Application filed August 27, 1888. Serial No. 283,902. (No model.)

To all 2071,0117 it may concern: the mercury of the grooves. The positions Be it known that I, WILLIAM P. KooKO- of the respective elements in the battery are GEY, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county shown at j and j. Aprojection from the castof Kings and State of New York, have ining A or an, attachment to it is shown at k, 5 vented a new and useful Improvement in Galhaving in it a mercury-cup 7c, and a groove vanic Batteries, of which the following is a by which the mercury is connected with the specification. mercury of the other grooves upon that cast- My invention relates to the method of coning. A similar mercury-cup is shown at m necting, both mechanically and electrically, upon the plate D. These take the place of I0 the series of electrodes or elements of a sinbinding-posts for connecting with the other gle cell both to the cell and to each other; cells or with the line. I speak of them as and it consists, in general, of suspending all cups, since they must be enlargements of the several elements of like kind separately the groove system in order to receive connecfrom a plate or casting on top of the cell by' tions large enough to prevent resistance. 15 means of hook-shaped tops resting in a con- The form of the supporting-plates is not tinuous horizontal groove in the plate, which essential, nor is it essential to have a double groove contains mercury. If both the posiset of grooves upon either plate. The main tive and negative elements are so arranged, idea is that there shall be electrical connecthey of course have separate plates insulated tion between all the elements of like kind by 20 from each other. Its object is simplicity and means of mercury in a groove upon the plate cheapness of manufacture, and also better which supports the elements. The plate itelectrical connection. self may even be made of insulating material;

In the accompanying drawings, in which but it is preferably made of metal. the same characters indicate analogous parts, The advantage of this form of battery is 7 2 5 Figure 1 is a top view of a plate or casting that it is cheaply made, the grooves being cast from which one series of elementsc. g., carin; no screws or nuts or bolts are necessary bon-is to be suspended. Fig. 2 is a top view to attach the elements to the cell; and the eleof a plate or casting for the other series of ments may be easily removed, either sepaelements-e. g., zinc. Fig. 3 is a vertical secrately or together. The electrical connection 0 tion on the line a: 90 of Figs. 1 and 2, showing is also better than in an ordinary battery, for

the two plates superimposed. Fig. 4 is a verthe connection is by means both of the mertical section of one of a series of elements on cury and the metal of the plates. It freline y y of Fig. 2 when in position in a batquently happens that by the oxidation of tery. metal, when that is the only conductor used 3 5 A is a plate or casting, preferably made of as in the common battery, the conductivity metal, haying projections a, by which it rests is decreased or destroyed. The invention is upon the top of the cell B. In Fig. 1 the parts appropriate to either a single-liquid or a twomarked with perpendicular lines are meant liquid battery. If desirable, the ordinary for open spaces. Continuous grooves c are binding-posts maybe attached to the plates 40 cut or cast in the plate A and are intended A and D at any point for connection with to hold a small quantity of mercury, the cell other cells or with the line. This manner of being carefully leveled when it is put up. connecting a cell and its electrodes may be In Fig.2,plate D has a similar construction, applied to cells of single elements as well as having continuous grooves e and projections those containing a series, as it is a simple but 9 5 5 f, by which it rests upon plate B, there being highly efficient connection; butit has especial insulating material d, Fig. 3, between the advantage when applied to large cells contwo plates when in position. The different raining a series of elements. elements of the battery hang down separately I claim as my inventionfrom these grooves, each one having, Fig. 4, 1. In an electro-galvanic cell, the combina- 10a 50 a hook-shaped top 1', made of heavywire or tion of an electrode provided with a hookconducting material, the end of which enters shaped top, with a support from which the An electro-galvanic cell consisting of a receptacle for the solution, tWo separate plates insulated from each other to rest 011 top of the receptacle, each of such plates having openings through which the elements of the battery may be suspended, and also having a continuous groove upon its upper surface to contain mercury, and two series of positive and negative elements having hooked-shapedtops to rest in the mercury-grooves of the respective plates, substantially as and for the purpose described.

4. In an 'electro-galvanic cell having its elements suspended therein by hooks resting in mercury Which is held on a supporting-plate,-

a cup for mercury formed as a part of or attached to such supporting-plate, substantiall as and for the purpose described.

. In witness whereof I have hereunto put my hand, this 24th day of August, 1888, in the presence of two Witnesses.

' WM. P. KOOKOGEY. Witnesses:

SALTER S. CLARK, 'GEo. C. BRAINERD. 

